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In what way is The Lion King similar to Hamlet ? Our money is on the talking baboons, dispensing wisdom and songs about bananas. ...What do you mean there's no talking baboon in Hamlet ? Why even write the story??
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Thank you We sneak Shakespeare's hamlet The lion king Alas
- 00:12
In what ways is the lion king Similar The hamlet
- 00:16
So when the classic examples is the lion king right
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There's this evil conniving brother that's responsible for for his
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brother the rightful king's death So simple Here is hamlin
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Move fossa is older hamlet scar is claudius But of
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course And that one the ambiguity about whether claudius is
- 00:36
actually an okay person is totally lighter Scar's definitely not
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okay also in in the movie because it's because it's
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not a tragedy you know symbols survives and gets married
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right So the who would be the ophelia character actually
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survives and convinces him to come back and actually does
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have agency Whereas in this play the female partner to
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the sun definitely doesn't When we as an audience encounter
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the ghost of king hamlet in hamlet we like him
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would have no way of knowing whether it's true whereas
- 01:12
in the lion king when we've crossed it comes back
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and does that weird thing with the stars and it's
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like i am this godly figure that will tell you
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what to do you like just implicitly trust him wears
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in the play it's like it's not clear that this
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is actually good guidance It's not clear that he's actually
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could dude even if it is really his ghost Lots
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of levels there In what ways is the lion king 00:01:35.028 --> [endTime] Similar The hamlet
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